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One of the beauties of bloggery is following the links wherever they take you. I started out at Alexander Russo's blog, where he does a helpful daily blog roundup. That links to an Eduwonk piece about Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, which links to a Sherman Dorn post linking to (last one) a Miami Herald blog, which reported Spellings's response to a question about whether evolution should be included in state science standards.

The top federal education official said "Of course it should be. Evolution is accepted science, and it should be presented to our children as such."

Nah, just kidding. The Herald blog reports that Spellings said "it wasn't her job to make policy decisions like that," which, loosely translated, means "I'll say anything to appease my party's base."

Posted by John on January 8, 2008 04:50 PM | Permalink

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Interesting Blog.
And helpful.
I'm a teacher too.
Best wishes.
Silvina
Spanish Teacher
San Telmo
Buenos Aires

Posted by: Silvina Spanish Teacher Buenos Aires | January 9, 2008 08:34 PM

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